Criminal Law vs. Tort Criminal Law Criminal law is the conduct of any wrongful action that threatens the safety ones property, health, and morality in intentional way by another. The act or action of harming and damaging another wrongfully with grudge and a malice intension to cause harm with no remorse. Endangering another person or place, persons welfare in any harmful or endangering another. An example of criminal law nurse physically abusing a patient who refuses to take his medication. A man breaking into the neighbors house stealing their personal properties unaware or planning to harm someone in end murder another person. A nurse in the facility I worked once was stealing patients pain medications after months of investigation